...following major statutory missions: (a) Provide Fleet Marine Forces of combined arms, both ground and air, for service with the fleet in the seizure or defense of advanced naval bases and the conduct of such land operations as may be essential in the prosecution of a naval campaign. Fiscal...

...Corps makes a major contribution to that objective. The Marine Corps' primary mission is to provide forces of combined arms together with supporting air components for service with the fleet and seizure or defense of advanced bases and conduct of such campaigns as may be essential to the prosecution...

...requires an adequate training base and a strategically located base system. Marine combat forces are forces of combined arms together with supporting air components for service with the fleet, for amphibious operations, and for performance of such other duties as the President may direct. This...

...Regular Marine Corps shall be maintained at not more than four hundred thousand. The Marine Corps shall be organized, trained, and equipped to provide fleet marine forces of combined arnw, together with supporting air components, for service with the fleet in the seizure or defense...

...three air wings, and such other land combat, aviation, and other services as may be organic therein. . .organized, trained, and equipped to provide fleet marine forces of combined arms... for service with the fleet...." It is this primary tasking by the Congress to which we relentlessly...